Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Last Man in Europe
I feel like 1984 should have gone for the author's original title, "The Last Man in Europe". After having read the book one of the primary impressions I got out of it was the loneliness that the main character feels. While this feeling is relieved by his affair with Julia, it returns in his long process of capture and'rehabilitation'. Even when Winston is in his crowded work cafeteria having a conversation with his 'comrades' you get a feeling of his isolation. He is not talking to people, but members of the outer party;and this seems to be an important distinction
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Plus, during Winston's 'rehabilitation,' O'Brien asks Winston if he considers himself a man. He says yes, and O'Brien responds with, "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors" (222).
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